This text provides a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Contents include: intra-uterine life and the experience of birth; babyhood and becoming a person in the family; the toddler and the wider world; and the latency period. Using clinical and observational material, it should be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental...